[JOBS] FreeAgent recruiting interns, and permanent mid-level and senior roles
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James Bell
Jan 17, 2025, 8:05:42 AMJan 17
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Hi ScotRUG,
FreeAgent has an office in sunny Edinburgh (not as sunny as Dundee, but there you go), where about 50% of our engineers are based, with the other 50% working full time remote based around the rest of the UK and Northern Ireland.
We're hiring for a few permanent engineering positions at the moment,
you can see all our jobs at: https://careers.freeagent.com.
From an engineering point of view:
I hope your Hogmanays were good, and that all your homes have been properly first-footed.
We're hiring again at FreeAgent, so I thought I'd publicise that here. In case you don't know who we are, at FreeAgent we build web-based accounting software for small businesses. To put it another way our mission is to put small businesses in control of their finances. We've been a Rails shop since we were founded 18 years ago, and have a continuously upgraded majestic monolith (currently running on Rails 7.2).
We're hosted in AWS, and have recently removed the last vestiges of jQuery from our codebase. Our frontend story is largely Hotwire: Stimulus controllers and Turbo sending HTML for our page updates. We've got CSS generated through SASS, and our HTML (the best programming language) is generated through ERB templates.
FreeAgent has an office in sunny Edinburgh (not as sunny as Dundee, but there you go), where about 50% of our engineers are based, with the other 50% working full time remote based around the rest of the UK and Northern Ireland.
We're hiring for a few permanent engineering positions at the moment,
you can see all our jobs at: https://careers.freeagent.com.
From an engineering point of view:
* we're looking for some to join our support engineering team at our entry level (junior). This role is ideal for people looking to step into the industry, involves getting to know the product deeply, problem solving for customers, building tools in our Rails app to help our world class support team. A hugely varied role. This is office based - so in or around Edinburgh, with an expectation to be in the office 2 days a week. Salary range is £29,500 - £32,000 / year depending on experience: https://careers.freeagent.com/en/postings/4e31054a-a771-41b7-a868-563d0b9bb97f
* we're looking for two permanent mid-level to senior engineers for two of our product teams.These roles are to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, crafting and refining features in Ruby for the FreeAgent web-app. Depending on your experience, our salary for these roles are between £39,000 - £74,000. This is open to hybrid or remote work: https://careers.freeagent.com/en/postings/123db768-453f-49ce-8eaf-252c8afef7e9
* Also available to hybrid or remote work: until the end of January, applications for our paid summer engineering intern positions are open. If you or someone you know have yet to get paid experience in the industry, these roles are for you. We don't mind if you're self taught, come from a coding bootcamp or are studying at university. More details here: https://careers.freeagent.com/en/postings/518855cf-a59a-46c1-aa38-2826b1e23c8f. We pay interns £450/a week for 13 weeks, including holidays.
We're not looking for any agency support for these jobs nor are we looking for contractors at the moment.
If you have any questions about the roles, FreeAgent, or our tech stack. I'm happy to answer them. Remember when replying to me to remove the mailing list address from the to/cc fields. Don't reply all unless you mean to!
* we're looking for two permanent mid-level to senior engineers for two of our product teams.These roles are to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, crafting and refining features in Ruby for the FreeAgent web-app. Depending on your experience, our salary for these roles are between £39,000 - £74,000. This is open to hybrid or remote work: https://careers.freeagent.com/en/postings/123db768-453f-49ce-8eaf-252c8afef7e9
* Also available to hybrid or remote work: until the end of January, applications for our paid summer engineering intern positions are open. If you or someone you know have yet to get paid experience in the industry, these roles are for you. We don't mind if you're self taught, come from a coding bootcamp or are studying at university. More details here: https://careers.freeagent.com/en/postings/518855cf-a59a-46c1-aa38-2826b1e23c8f. We pay interns £450/a week for 13 weeks, including holidays.
We're not looking for any agency support for these jobs nor are we looking for contractors at the moment.
If you have any questions about the roles, FreeAgent, or our tech stack. I'm happy to answer them. Remember when replying to me to remove the mailing list address from the to/cc fields. Don't reply all unless you mean to!
Here's to an excellent 2025 for all of you - and with my ScotRUG organiser hat, we're looking forward to letting you know about our meetups for this year. We'll see you soon
James
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James Bell
Senior Engineering Manager
FreeAgent
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